Primary Insc: front, black ink "ROYAL ROAD TEST";
title page: "ROYAL/ ROAD TEXT/ Mason Williams/ Edward Ruscha/ Patrick Blackwell", followed by copyright page (verso), followed by inscription "It was too directly bound to its own anguish to be anything other then a cry of negation; carrying within itself, the seeds of its own destruction";
explanatory captions accompany 35 of 36 photographic reproductions, placed beside or underneath the photograph